Kelsey Hightower

And so, yeah, I was like, oh, these people are just moving slow.

And I looked at what they were doing and everything was like a risk.

If you made a mistake, you remember, you only get seven milliseconds, seven seconds to give Visa a response.

If you don't, then it's a default decline.

Now everybody's losing money.

And so the cost of getting a good change, it was just worth waiting.

So I didn't know that in the beginning.

So I'm just like, oh, everybody's moving a little too slow.

I was seeing how they were doing deployments.

I'm watching how they're provisioning servers.

I'm like, you know, you can automate this whole thing because I've done it multiple times.

And then I learned to be a little bit patient.

So I went, hold on.

I learned how to deal with the no's.

I learned how to deal with the executives.

I learned how to talk not just to engineers, but to the senior leaders and get their trust.

And I won't tick about everything that I did there, but I was there for about three years.

So the job had me stops.

And I remember there was a task where we were using Apache and some Java plugin to talk to our JBoss instances.

And so they were using a lot of memory per connection on a load balancer.